Pistols at Dawn – Officers, Gentlemen and the Deadly Tradition of Duelling
“The Duke of Wellington ruthlessly cashiered officers caught duelling during the Peninsular War, but even his iron will could not stamp out the practice entirely.” By John M. Danielski THE MUSICAL Hamilton is the toast…
MHN Marks Movember with the Most Famous Moustaches in Military History
“MilitaryHistoryNow.com is kicking off a month of Tweets from some of history’s best-known ‘staches with this montage.” MHN IS MARKING Movember this year with a salute to the most famous (and infamous) moustaches in military history. Now in…
‘The First World War in 100 Objects’ – Author Shares Artifacts That Symbolize One of History’s Bloodiest Conflicts
“Peter Doyle’s new book explores the objects we associate with the conflict – and some that still surprise us today.” As one writer has put it ‘objects hold within themselves the worlds of their creators’. Representing…
‘Hacksaw Ridge’ — MHN Shares Preview of Upcoming WW2 Blockbuster (VIDEO)
HACKSAW RIDGE, a new World War Two film from Oscar winning actor/director Mel Gibson, is set to burst onto screens next week. The film, which won rave reviews at the at the Venice Film Festival last month, tells…
The Crimean War – Seven Essential Facts About Victorian Britain’s Most Peculiar Conflict
“I view the Crimean War as a very important historical event and find it puzzling that it’s not used more frequently as a canvas for historical novels.” By M.J. Neary THE CRIMEAN WAR (1853-1856) is…
Two Years a Slave – Frenchman Recalls His Time as Forced Labourer in Nazi Germany
“I would be seized by a feeling of rage and the desire to kill, but I felt powerless.” The Nazi war machine was powered by slaves. An estimated 20 per cent of Hitler’s wartime workforce was…
